Tidewater Review

John Glenn, an enduring icon of the U.S. space program who once trained in Hampton Roads to become the first American to orbit the Earth, died Thursday in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He was 95. In his post-NASA career, Glenn served four terms as a U.S. senator from Ohio. Glenn was the last surviving...

Community News

On November 15, a "Workforce Connect" event, sponsored by the college's Office of Career and Transition Services (a department of the Workforce Development Office), was held on Rappahannock Community College's Glenns Campus. Company representatives from Curtis Contracting, Lowes, MetroCast, Rappahannock...

On November 4, at the Urbanna Firemen's Parade (part of the Oyster Festival activities), Rappahannock Community College won the Judge's Award for first place. RCC's entry featured the college's mobile simulation teaching ambulance, with students of RCC's EMT program.The head of the EMT program,...

Greeting to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. The Ephesus Baptist Church family invite you to our Pastor, Morris Randall Sr.'s 27th Anniversary, Sunday December 11th Pastor's 27th Anniversary. Minister Toni Shackleford-Williams associate Minister at First Baptist Church Plainview,...

The Grand Lodge of Virginia, on Saturday, November 12, 2016, during its 238th Annual Communication, elected Vernon Stuart Cook, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, to serve as its 172nd Grand Master during 2016 - 2017. Vernon Stuart Cook was born in Richmond, Virginia on April 9, 1943. He was educated...

Sports

Three interceptions, two blocked punts and a fumble prevented the King William Cavaliers from advancing Friday in the VHSL playoffs. "The blocked punts and turnovers really turned the momentum of the game tonight," Cavaliers coach Dylan DeHart said. "I am proud of the way this team continued to...

The West Point High School boys cross-country team is headed to the 2016 Cross-Country State Championships after taking first place in the district championships and tying for third in regionals. The West Point High School boys cross-country team started with a championship win at the 2016 Conference...

Life

The 9th Annual Jenna Bash Festival raised over $16,000 this year to support the New Kent Humane Society, the New Kent Animal Shelter and Proclaiming Grace Outreach operations. “We want to thank the community for their support of our 9th Annual Jenna Bash Festival,” said Proclaiming Grace Outreach...

Christmas on the Town is returning Sunday, Dec. 4 to the streets of West Point. Throughout the day, children can attend Santa's Workshop while their parents and adults shop at Santa's Blazing Bazaar. The festivities began at 1 p.m. and run though 5:30 p.m. when the West Point Illumination lights...

Students from West Point High School and the Duke of York Royal Military Academy, in Dover, England, have teamed up to perform "Phantom of the Opera" Oct. 19, 20 and 22. Students from the English academy will travel to West Point to perform in the musical, learn Virginia's history and experience...

Opinion

Although there has recently been considerable skepticism about the validity of polls, and rightly so, this is one poll we can depend on as there is no political reason to misconstrue it. A recent Gallop poll shows that the respect for law enforcement officers has increased sharply over the past...

The CornerStone is so very blessed to have such faithful and a happy band of volunteers. We can never thank them enough. They share their time and talents without any compensation. It is not what they do or how much they give but it is their way of life. This weekend we had plenty of help to unload...

To the Editor: Thank you for inviting local opinion in the aftermath of a history-making election. To Liberals: We feel your pain. Honestly. As a local Tea Party activist, I'm probably not alone in offering sincere condolences to our Democrat-voting friends who are so profoundly troubled by Mr....

he Tidewater Review's article "How Tidewater Voted" in the Nov. 10 issue shows President-elect (Donald) Trump was the winner by a voter margin of almost 2:1 ratio in our area. The question is: why? I feel the father of Trump's victory in our area has to be viewed with an eye towards the truth and...

National News

In the end — isolated, mocked and loathed by millions of protesters who swarmed the streets around her presidential fortress on the side of a sacred granite mountain — even the conservative adulation that had been President Park Geun-Hye's political bedrock failed to save her.

A new report into systematic Russian doping details a wide-ranging "institutional conspiracy" that involved more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports, including evidence corroborating large-scale sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard...

More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the most ever. The disastrous tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids. Heroin deaths rose 23 percent in one year, to 12,989, slightly higher than...

John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95.